"This is a major step forward in our pursuit to build molecular-scale electronic devices, " said Phaedon Avouris, lead researcher on the project.

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If the light were not infrared but were instead in the visible spectrum, there was enough of it that the naked eye could have seen a glow, according to Phaedon Avouris , manager of nanometer scale science and technology at IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) Research Laboratories in Yorktown Heights, N.

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